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From: perand@ttds.UUCP (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function
Keywords: crypt unix ibm-pc
Message-ID: <1245@ttds.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 20:37:30 GMT
References: <855@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <2152@netcom.UUCP> <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> <310@cs.columbia.edu> <13885@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: perand@admin.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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In article <13885@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>
>  Yes, anybody that wants the sources to crypt() can get it with no
>problem at all.  The Russians already have it.  Anybody else who
>really wants it probably already has it.  But it's still illegal to
>export it.
>

Nowadays yes. But in ancient times it was distributed with the BSD 4.2
sources. Quite a gag..




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